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Public Affairs ] T H E L E A D E R ? 745 defend rotten boroughsSir Richard Bethell iscommencement of the the of the
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SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE LEADER . " ONE GUINEA PER YEAR , UNSTAMPED , PEEPATD . ( Delivered Gratis . ) ¦ ¦
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PALMERSTON'S " WOOLLY HORSE . " Barnum ' s Woolly Horse was not a more decided sham than the " Great Liberal Party" in the British House of Commons . The materials with which the Yankee trickster compoundedhis curiosity were in themselves respectable ; and we do not wish to say less of the elements composing the anti-Tory phalanx ; lmt there-is a resemblance in result , and Lord Palnierstou ' s new Cabinet seems to prove that the " Liberal Party" is a delusion quite as much as the " Woolly Horse" was a fraud .
A . few days ago some of our excitable contemporaries endeavoured to make the world believe that the " Saturuiau Kingdom" was to be restored , or the millenium coming by parcels express , because Cambridge House had confabulated with Chesham Place , and the two redoubtable leaders had agreed to make a " woolly horse" of the Liberal Party , and exhibit its paces at Willis ' s Rooms . That performance being successful , another was announced . The most liou-like aristocrat was to roll about the carpet in fraternal frolic M'ith the Reform lamb of Birmingham , while the children of democracy
.: to uplift his " voice for legal and electoral reform , while the senile and sonorous Campbell is to drown his subordinate ' s plaintive cry . Messrs . Cobden and Gibson are to be overlaid by the three Whig baronets , and as Indian affairs demand a peculiar combination of administrative and financial skill , that Member of the triad most celebrated for possessing neither is to take them under his care . " Benjamin ' s mess" was nothing to the Palmerstori hotch potch , but we thank him for it , as we believe it will teach both the people and their representatives a useful lesson .
The House of Commons has acted in defiance of constitutional principles , and richly deserved its own disgrace . Instead of controlling the affairs of the country within its own walls , _ . it has suffered itself to be inauaged over the wine cups or in the drawing-rooms qf Piccadilly and Belgravia , and delegated to family factions powers which it ought to have held firmly in its hands . Lord Palmerston was expelled from office for definite offences , which the House of Commons condemned , and a return to power ought to have been impossible , except as the reward of services rendered in that House , and in consequence of a
full and frank declaration of principles and intentions that its members could commend . Lord John Russell was also under a cloud for his Vienna conduct , and other reasons that will easily be remembered . In his case , also , the House of Commons ought to have required | proof drawn from conduct and explanations -within its walls , that it would be consistent with the interests of the country to give him support . Instead of this , both noble lords are permitted to consider themselves inevitable ministers , who hare simply
to wait until their opponents are in difficulties , when a few family meetings will suffice to lay down dicta that the " Liberal Party " are expected to obey . Kot only are the chiefs " inevitable , " but certain subordinate persons are allowed to enjoy the same prerogative , and hence ministers arc neither chosen by the Queen nor by tlie House of C ommons , but both Crown and representatives are converted into a mechanism for giving effect to the impulses and interests of the few great houses who really rule the State . , , worthil the
A House of Commons y representing people , and conscious of its own dignity , would tolerate no class , of " inevitable ministers , " would effectually resent all attempts to dispose of its votes by private arrangements better adapted for the transfer of a collection of poultry or a gentleman ' s stud . If the composition of the Cabinet does not answer the expectations held out at Willis ' s Rooms , Mr .-Bri ght and other leaders of the Independent Liberals 0 are bound to explain the terms iipon which
they consented to unite with Lords Palmerston and Russell , and what , securities they took for the due performance of the contract . Vague promises that Lord Palmerston would be lessjaunty and less reactionary , or that Lord John Russell would be less exclusive , will not be held sufficient to have justified their conduct ; but even wiser precautions than they appear to have taken will not exonerate the House or Commons which permitted private bargaining to take the place of fair discussion within its walls .
were to thrust their hands into the holes of the Whig cockatrice , and play at marbles with its eggs . Well , the spectators are ready , the hour lias come , the principal comedians are engaged , but the performance does not begin ? sounds of impatience arc plainly heard , and if the curtain does not rise quickly upon a successful scene , the audience will be disgusted and the actors hissed . After all , who is to blame—the Liberal Party , or the aristocratic Barnums , who have made them into
a ridiculous show P This is a practical question , and one whioli , to drop nil metaphor , must force upon every mind the question of Parliamentary Reform . However it may bo finally arranged , it is evident Unit the new Cabinet will not justify the expectations of those gentlemen who combined for the overthrow of Lqrd Dorby ' s administration . The country lias certainly gained additional chances of keeping the pence with Franco , as no member of the P « lxucrston Administration would talk as Lord Derby did at the Merchant TuilorR' dinner , as if the preservation of neutrality would bo an niinnssihln i ' ont : but wo are verv little nonrcr tho
formation of a Cabinet thoroughly agreed upon broad principles , or ready to i ! onr"i ( U ' r that merit constitutes « s good a claim ad fainHy t <> power and place . ' , . Lord Puluiorslon has compounded hirt Cabinet as a cook proceeds wil . li' a complicated pudding , sotting oil ' one kind of flavouring against another , so as to produce a conl ' uuion , if not a harmony of result . Lord John is to assail , and ( llo-ilstono to
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war , Emperor French solemnly disclaims in tlie face of Europe all schemes . of territorial' aggrandisement ,, and declares that France desires , by becoming the saviour of nations , to acquire true glory , with its unfailing accompaniment of moral power . We may wish that France possessed liberty while she offers independence , and we . may deplore the memory of transactions that we would g ladly see buried beneath a pyramid of good deeds , but we cannot help feeling that it is a grand thing for a nation , to shake off the dead dogmas of an antiquated diplomacy and proclaim doctrines which deserve triumph and command respect . Let any one read the miserable blue book just published on the affairs of Italy , and compare the silly verbosity of
Malmesbury and Cowley with the vigorous truth uttered by Imperial France , and the result will be greater humiliation than Englishmen like to feel . France could see the Italian people , but our Foreign Office could only see the Treat y of Vienna . Now we have a new Foreign minister boasting of liberal sympathies , and yet recently professing to deplore any armed effort to drive the Austrians from Italy and leave the people in possession of their own soil . His lordship could not see that a nation with an invader , in its house wants something more than a Whig Reform Bill for its solace . Now , we trust he has grown wiser , and will be able to understand that there is an Italian People ^ and that he will also be able to learn that there is a Hungarian People , whom Lord Palmerston would not see in 1848-9-.
Since the day when Canning sent the Duke of Wellington to protest against . the" Holy-Alliance " principles , to which Austria still clings , no English minister has had so splendid an opportunity of raising his country and himself j as that which Lord John Russell will possess ; but if he is to be the worthy representative of England _ lie must learn to speak like a man of this time . We want no fossil doctrines or extinct ¦ thoughts , but the latest and noblest views of international duty and popular right . Is the -Whig heart warm enough , the Wlii " brain fervent enough , to answer these
demands ? Will his lordship shine like a modern lamp , or flicker and smoke like a " light of other ¦ day s ? " These are questions that England asks with doubts and fears that we hope are destined to be dispersed . Meanwhile events travel by railway , and demand resolve as prompt , action as quick , as the operation of the telegraphs which proclaim from hour to hour that an old state of things is passing away . Last week it was a question whether the Austrians would attempt a defence on the Adda , now they are on the Mincio , and from all parts of Italy their forces are skurryin <» like frightened rooks anxious to get home before a storm . Gyulai ' s grand plans of capturinto isaron xacs&
ing Genoa are .. changed p prudential dispositions to save Verona . The Austrians are now in front of their stronghold * on the Mincio and the Adige , ready to test the worth ot their much vaunted " square "— FeUcliKJra , Mantua , Verona , and Leguago—upon which such engineering skill and treasure as thoy possess has been lavished these many years . Of these tho most important is Verona , constituting a large entrenched camp , and the plaeo where ^ tho most important communications converge . Taken all together , these fortresses require nn immense army for their defence , and it is expected that the Austrians will not , like hunted foxes run to earth , until they nre defeated in what promise * to be tlie groat battle of tho war . Old Buron I loss will trine to boar all that ho has learnt during » long lifts of serviceand he has the advimtngo ot a
posi-FRANCE AND THE NATIONALITIES . The most significant event of the week is the departure of Louis Koasuth for Italy , by express invitation of tho French and Sardinian Government . ' } , who have supplied the necessary passports . In January Count Buol told our representative at Vienna , that Austria could never come to an understanding with France on Italian afluirs , because " France sympathises with , and . protects the cause of Nationalities , whereas Austria supports that of sovereigns , governments , and of Vordra
etabli . Tho distinct alliance with tho Hungarian people , publicly proclaimed by tho invitation to KoHSuth , Jidda juntinoation to tho statement of Count JJuol : Franco occupies the proud position of tho nsscrtor and defender of human right , while Austria , stands—or rather runs—an the fitting clininpjon of that combination of the tlirono and tho tfiu" » ' tho oruparor and tho hangman , whioli nlie dignities by the name of " oatabliwliod order . " ' After the hucoohu «•! ' Mimontn , an before tho
, tion reported to be ono of ( he slrongerJt in the world . On the part of Franco wo expect the most novel nvoiiKiis ami tin . latest . ^ volopinonla of science and skill , while ( Jarijiakb , copal 1 c y his umpliibiouri education oi being a fish in the water or a ffont on tho mountains » my manage to do Homothmg with Lake Unrilo that the . enemy loon"T » t oxV-t- Admiral IW 11 squadron may aln . u bo looked for in the Adriatic , aa an nttiHsk upon Venice might prove uiihuIuI diversion , and in a low weeks , pui-lmps duyn , we shall know whether Hungary i . s to bo invitwl to unary tlio Htrife . Univo ' Klnpka , the doibmlor of Coainrn , lniH kmiod iurn « l « lruHH ( Jailing upoirlmi countrymen 44 m Ci . imii in liiilv a Hunirarian army , whuih all or
fiirhting on Italian ground may niturn to its own country and take part in a war of iiiilup « nilo » o <>; hut thu strength of the fueling whioli Hum Uueu-
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NOTICK . S TO CORKESl'ONDEXTS . - No notice can be taken of anonymons correspondence Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by tho name and address of The writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their -insertion is often delayed , owingf to a press of mat-tor ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite indtpondeut of the merits of the communication . We cannot wnlortake to return rejected communications .
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There is notliih"' so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal projjivss . —Dn . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2299/page/13/
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